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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
* X# c+ O1 }$ h5 u+ z; `Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
' i1 S8 ~0 [7 X! O" _* kNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading: o- L; l2 A6 Q5 Q. u
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!4 S7 e2 C$ l+ ^) C7 ]7 t$ ^
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
! A% ~9 [+ u& G" e# q4 cbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
1 L: J2 B% d7 ?0 G$ ^) a”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over; y8 J/ r* V+ y6 o+ ] m
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
3 G1 M3 T6 p1 l$ a' e& |pure luck.$ _. \ N1 K$ m% _! e
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers& S6 l3 D- Y! u
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
$ E) h* U) E' `- QThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin6 |0 U, ^: ~0 K( N, V, F! q
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall5 j9 O' o, t* C6 D1 s4 P$ O
Street watchdogs.
6 L/ i' c4 K: O! _”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
! D, C" X3 ^( r; E$ ^ `Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ [7 w: g' U0 l1 x$ N8 U9 r
investigation.
9 C+ {; \6 g2 Q( TWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
, F8 b2 f; K1 s0 p H: f G" \four-hour confession.6 R4 d8 F* c. u# r. z3 V, [8 z
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common* p: A. ?+ `/ t k
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with7 |4 J& c0 T- ~: b, b/ y# W
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
- e; G2 a' K- m9 Z' Z; q/ r; i”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to9 I. ^- n6 e& A3 \, Q9 U+ C8 {
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught3 B: x0 U& J& ]& f
in the moment.”7 K5 R% c* F' u( r* {5 q
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
! a6 w- E: _- \1 O3 v" AOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
7 W: c; G Y( w# u& j1 U' T2 ~All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”4 {: L; _# W' {) U% u+ u
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
$ n" s" g5 U- Qthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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